Wolfgang Kastner

Wolfgang Kastner is a Full Professor at the Department of Automation Systems, Faculty of Informatics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). His research focuses on Distributed Automation, Industry 4.0, Smart Grids, IoT, and Cybersecurity in Industrial Systems. He is affiliated with TU Wien and actively contributes to projects funded by institutions like the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and TÜV Austria. His work spans safety, security, and integration challenges in IT/OT convergence.

Research interests include Industrial Automation, Cyber-physical Systems, and IoT applications. He leads projects such as the TÜV AUSTRIA Security in Industry Research Lab and collaborates on initiatives like FORA (Fog Computing for Robotics) and DiCYCLE (Digitalization in Construction). His research addresses energy efficiency, fault detection, and semantic integration in industrial and building automation systems.

Key projects include:

• Unleashing Sector-coupling Flexibility (2023–2027)
• Contextual Deep Learning for Predictive Analytics (2023)
• Semantics-based Explanation of Cyber-physical Systems (2023–2025)

His contributions to standards like Asset Administration Shell (AAS) and AutomationML (AML) highlight his role in bridging theoretical and applied cybersecurity and safety engineering.